RE: Some Resources (was Re: newbie help on error message)

2003-04-29 Thread Victor Mote
Clay Leeds wrote: > While we're on the subject of books and resources for FOP Resources, > here's a couple things to add. One of my previous posts included a list > of good books on XSL-FO (some of which you've listed). Here's a link to > my post. > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=104

Some Resources (was Re: newbie help on error message)

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Victor, While we're on the subject of books and resources for FOP Resources, here's a couple things to add. One of my previous posts included a list of good books on XSL-FO (some of which you've listed). Here's a link to my post. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-user&m=104463666315238&w=2 Asi

Re: newbie help on error message

2003-04-27 Thread J.Pietschmann
Victor Mote wrote: BTW, I think it is good to learn new technology on the job. In fact, having a real-world problem is about the only way I can learn anything. However, you do want to have your books at hand as you do it, which is probably what you meant anyway. I meant: It is bad to be thrown at a

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-26 Thread Victor Mote
Eric Pement wrote: > So I no longer get the error message. However, the content > of the is now empty, and whatever is in the > tags is being ignored and not printed in the output document. > > All Xalan did was to confirm that nothing is printed in the > output. Problem is, it didn't tell me ex

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-26 Thread Victor Mote
Victor Mote wrote: > Good idea -- I just committed a change that has both of these. I > also added > the O'Reilly book "XSLT Cookbook", for which I have seen some > good reviews. > I hadn't heard about that one until this week. I hope to publish the web > site this weekend. Sorry. I meant to thro

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-26 Thread Victor Mote
J.Pietschmann wrote: > Buy Mike Kay's book on XSLT (ISBN 1861005067) and perhaps > D.Pawsons book about XSLFO (ISBN 0596003552) and work through > the examples. It is usually unwise to learn a new technology on > the job. > > Victor: as usual, something for the ressources page? Good idea -- I jus

Re: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Eric Pement wrote: So I no longer get the error message. However, the content of the is now empty, and whatever is in the tags is being ignored and not printed in the output document. All Xalan did was to confirm that nothing is printed in the output. Problem is, it didn't tell me exactly why th

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread Eric Pement
At 12:25 PM 4/25/2003 -0600, Victor Mote wrote: >Eric Pement wrote: >> Right now, I'm getting an error message, "fo:flow must contain block-level >> children", which I've fixed the error message, by changing >> >> >> To this: So I no longer g

Re: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Eric Pement wrote: Right now, I'm getting an error message, "fo:flow must contain block-level children", which I don't know what to do with. It means exactly what it says. . . . Chances are that your template isn't matched for whatever reason, and the flow turns out empty or p

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread Victor Mote
Eric Pement wrote: > file and I'm at a novice level in all of this. So I'd like to build the > .XSL file incrementally, seeing if I can print single tags from the .XML > file, and then successively adding tags until I have a generalized > solution that will work on whatever .XML file we feed it wh